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And I agree. But with all those players we bought. Lo Celso, Ndombele, Clarke, Sessegnon, Bergwijn, Fernandes. They're all young players with resale value. They're all great signings but my point is occasionally investing when the footballing case is greater than the financial one because winning should be the most important thing, it's why we're all here.

People can say this striker doesn't exist etc. etc. But I repeat that Jason Burt and I think many other journalists reported our attempt to try and sign Eran Zahavi from China in the dying minutes. There were also reports everywhere that we wanted Ighalo too.

So Jose clearly deemed those two as good enough for us. Now my point is people are saying there is nobody in world football as good as these two available had we stumped up a decent loan fee to get somebody in temporarily for 6 months? I just don't buy it. It's either incompetency or there's just not a great care for winning.

That's a £12m (+ £100k pw) write down on a 32 year old who wasn't intended to start.

We did that after Levy had already written down £13m Soldado and what turned out to be £10m on Jansen.

So we were prepared to do that mid summer when it wasn't evidently crucial to CL football and revenue, but wouldn't speculate when it obviously could be pivotal?

3. Finally, loan strikers. You've argued earlier that we could have a better loan striker by throwing a bigger loan fee around. Neither of us can prove a hypothetical either way.

But I'd argue a £6m per season write down on Llorente suggests it more likely we will invest when no young "investment option" is available to solve a football-ing need.

So lets take Ighalo as the quality bench mark of what loan strikers were available to PL clubs.

Functional, probably bench options to throw on. Do any of us, JM included, think Ighalo is such a difference maker that we should try and outbid United's deep pockets? Probably not.

So what does the permanent version of Ighalo look like financially, or even slightly better. We're back to Piatek, Jose, or similar levels across Europe who we may have enquired but never heard about.

Add on the "Spurs are desperate for a striker" tax. It's still going to be a £40-50m 4+ year commitment in Fee + Wages.

Does Mourinho want to spend his first summer window moving on the next Janssen. Definitely not, so my read is that in agreement with the board (as per his comments) he passed and took the football hit in order to have a better less risky summer window.

I get why there's suspicion over Levy, some of it is well earned, but I genuinely believe in this case it's just an unfortunate series of events stemming from changing manager and the different value they both place on having multiple game ready no.9s.

The board couldn't have over ruled Poch, who wasn't necessarily wrong to rely on Son /Parrott for his style of football.

That's a £12m (+ £100k pw) cost on a write down on a 32 year old who wasn't intended to start.

We did that after Levy had already written down £13m Soldado and what turned out to be £10m on Jansen.

So we were prepared to do that mid summer when it wasn't evidently crucial to CL football and revenue, but wouldn't speculate when it obviously could be pivotal?

3. Finally, loan strikers. You've argued earlier that we could have a better loan striker by throwing a bigger loan fee around. Neither of us can prove a hypothetical either way.

But I'd argue a £6m per season write down on Llorente suggests it more likely we will invest when no young "investment option" is available to solve a football-ing need.

So lets take Ighalo as the quality bench mark of what loan strikers were available to PL clubs.

Functional, probably bench options to throw on. Do any of us, JM included, think Ighalo is such a difference maker that we should try and outbid United's deep pockets? Probably not.

So what does the permanent version of Ighalo look like financially, or even slightly better. We're back to Piatek, Jose, or similar levels across Europe who we may have enquired but never heard about.

Add on the "Spurs are desperate for a striker" tax. It's still going to be a £40-50m 4+ year commitment in Fee + Wages.

Does Mourinho want to spend his first summer window moving on the next Janssen. Definitely not, so my read is that in agreement with the board (as per his comments) he passed and took the football hit in order to have a better less risky summer window.

I get why there's suspicion over Levy, some of it is well earned, but I genuinely believe in this case it's just an unfortunate series of events stemming from changing manager and the value the pace on having multiple game ready no.9s.

The board couldn't have over rule Poch, who wasn't necessarily wrong to rely on Son /Parrott for his style of football.

I think there is still huge potential to grow the club further before he calls it a day.
The re-development of the local area and expanding the non-footballing side of the business will keep him busy for another 2 or 3 years.
He'll want to make us the biggest (richest) club in the world before he finishes.
Whilst this may sound laughable if you put Wembley level turnovers on top of our current earnings we will be.

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Levy may have plans, and may have persuaded uncle Joe to stick with them. But sometimes offers come along that you can't refuse. And if Joe gets an offer that is simply too huge to turn away from, Levy doesn't have the clout to stop the sale.

But my guess is that it would take a mammoth amount of money for that to happen. As in, between to 2 to 3BN, at least.

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I think there is still huge potential to grow the club further before he calls it a day.
The re-development of the local area and expanding the non-footballing side of the business will keep him busy for another 2 or 3 years.
He'll want to make us the biggest (richest) club in the world before he finishes.
Whilst this may sound laughable if you put Wembley level turnovers on top of our current earnings we will be.

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Soccerex. Who also ranked us 4th overall in terms of “ powerful “ Which seems a bit unlikely but if you only use certain criteria is plausible. Although tangible assets is fact not based on some weird Formulae. As it would be considering we’ve just built most expensive stadium in Europe.

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Soccerex. Who also ranked us 4th overall in terms of “ powerful “ Which seems a bit unlikely but if you only use certain criteria is plausible. Although tangible assets is fact not based on some weird Formulae. As it would be considering we’ve just built most expensive stadium in Europe.

The tangible asset value of the stadium development isn't directly related to its cost. You could spend £500,000 building a house in a neighbourhood where a house is worth £300,000 and it would still be worth only £300,000 when you sell it.

It is heavily related to the stadium's location in London, that being the centre of a large a catchment area for audiences for events, as well as having further asset value and potential growth in the undeveloped housing-and-hotel land. I imagine there's also a value in the income from the multiple food and drink outlets, Spurs shop and other retail on site.

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The tangible asset value of the stadium development isn't directly related to its cost. You could spend £500,000 building a house in a neighbourhood where a house is worth £300,000 and it would still be worth only £300,000 when you sell it.

It is heavily related to the stadium's location in London, that being the centre of a large a catchment area for audiences for events, as well as having further asset value and potential growth in the undeveloped housing-and-hotel land. I imagine there's also a value in the income from the multiple food and drink outlets, Spurs shop and other retail on site.

I’d disagree tbh. Because they haven’t just built a stadium they’ve built an independent business and a cash cow. Most stadium are worthless without the football club or just worth the price of the land. Ours is a totally different story and although I hate to say it an asset that could be sold in its own right a business much like Wembley can be. And to this end makes it totally unique in European football. The stadium itself already has contracts with multiple sources independent of the football club. NFL music rugby and boxing about to happen.

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I’d disagree tbh. Because they haven’t just built a stadium they’ve built an independent business and a cash cow. Most stadium are worthless without the football club or just worth the price of the land. Ours is a totally different story and although I hate to say it an asset that could be sold in its own right a business much like Wembley can be. And to this end makes it totally unique in European football. The stadium itself already has contracts with multiple sources independent of the football club. NFL music rugby and boxing about to happen.

I can't see what you are disagreeing with, nor anything that constitutes a disagreement!

This is an undisputed fact of capitalism: the value of an asset does not depend on its cost, it depends on how much the market will pay for it. Therefore, the equally undisputed fact that our stadium was expensive to build has no effect on its asset value.

The rest of your post restates the same kind of things I was referring to about the value of events, retail businesses and the housing/hotel development: "an independent business and cash cow", if you prefer.

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wish Levy and Enic would just fuck off out of our club! Now they have the cash cow of the stadium they clearly aren’t interested in the actual football team who play there! More interested in filling there pockets from all the extra events they can hold at the ground. Lol at all us mugs who thought that this amazing new ground would take us to the next level! Just used fill Levys/ENIC and fellow directors pockets.

Grunge baby forever

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wish Levy and Enic would just fuck off out of our club! Now they have the ca#h cow of the stadium they clearly aren’t interested in the actual football team who play there! More interested in filling there pockets from all the extra events they can hold at the ground

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what you are happy with how he is running this football club?? Highest paid director in football while
completely under investing in the team and leaving us with the shit we have to put up with watching week in week out whilst being charged highest ticket prices in football.

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what you are happy with how he is running this football club?? Highest paid director in football we
l completely under investing in the team and leaving us with the shit we have to put up with watching week in week out whilst being charged highest ticket prices in football

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